The Ministry of Health () is a government ministry which organize public health affairs within the Indonesian government.
History
Ministry of Health was formed on 19 August 1945. The ministry is responsible for public health affairs in Indonesia. The ministry is led by a minister who is responsible to the president and part of the cabinet. Commonly, the minister usually came from medical doctor, however some of them were military doctor. Since 2009, the government has been required to allocate 5% of state budget for health sector. However, the mandatory 5% state budget for health sector was achieved in 2019.
In 2001, the ministry was merged with Department of Social Affairs () into Department of Health and Social Welfare, however the merger was short-lived and both departments were reestablished. On 27 November 2001, Board for Development and Empowerment of Human Resources for Health () was established.
On 23 September 2021, National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD) will be transformed into Agency for Health Policies Development, a regulatory agency intended to provide only policies and standards making for state health activity, no longer doing research as the research part will be relinquished to National Research and Innovation Agency. Thus, on 7 November 2021, the Ministry issued order to NIHRD and its child agencies to halt their activities per 31 December 2021 as unit under auspices of Ministry of Health, effectively started the dismantlement of Balitbangkes. In the order, NIHRD will split into three parts: one part (which is the most) relinquished to BRIN, one part to become BKPK, and the rest of the Balitbangkes part in regional level will be relinquished to local government where the NIHRD branch formerly existed for being transformed into local-government run public health laboratories for being integrated as part of state public health laboratories system.
List of ministers of health
Boentaran Martoatmodjo (1945) Darma Setiawan (1945–1947) Johannes Leimena (1947–1949), (1950–1953) & (1955–1956) Surono (1949) Sutopo (1950) Ferdinand Lumbantobing (1953) Lie Kiat Teng (1953–1955) Handrianus S (1956–1957) Abdul Azis Saleh (1957–1959) Satrio (1959–1966) G.A. Siwabessy (1966–1978) Soewardjono Soerjaningrat (1978–1983) Adhyatma (1988–1993) Sujudi (1993–1998) Farid Anfasa Moeloek (1998–1999) Achmad Sujudi (1999–2004) Siti Fadilah Supari (2004–2009) Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih (2009–2012) Nafsiah Mboi (2012–2014) Nila Moeloek (2014–2019) Terawan Agus Putranto (2019–2020) Budi Gunadi Sadikin (2020–present)